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Famous Deploys Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Deploys poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous deploys poems. These examples illustrate what a famous deploys poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Manrique, Jorge
...y
The cost of our iniquities
Shall be eternal.

The pleasures light, the fond evasions
That life on troubled earth deploys
For eyes of mortals,
What are they but the fair persuasions
Of labyrinths where Death decoys
To trap-like portals?

Where heedless of the doom ensuing
We hasten laughing to the snare
Without suspicion.
Until aghast at our undoing,
We turn to find the bolt is there,
And our perdition.

Could we but have procured the power
To make our fad...Read more of this...



by Hecht, Anthony
...As though it were reluctant to be day,
.......Morning deploys a scale
.......Of rarities in gray,
And winter settles down in its chain-mail,

Victorious over legions of gold and red.
......The smokey souls of stones,
......Blunt pencillings of lead,
Pare down the world to glintless monotones

Of graveyard weather, vapors of a fen
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by Seeger, Alan
...aim you as their kin 
Or spurn you from their board. 

So, when the order comes: "Attack!" 
And the assaulting wave deploys, 
And the heart trembles to look back 
On life and all its joys; 

Or in a ditch that they seem near 
To find, and round your shallow trough 
Drop the big shells that you can hear 
Coming a half mile off; 

When, not to hear, some try to talk, 
And some to clean their guns, or sing, 
And some dig deeper in the chalk -- - 
I look upon my ring: 

And n...Read more of this...

by Dickinson, Emily
...e the June Bee -- before the School Boy,
Invites the Race --
Stoops -- to an easy Clover --
Dips -- evades -- teases -- deploys --
Then -- to the Royal Clouds
Lifts his light Pinnace --
Heedless of the Boy --
Staring -- bewildered -- at the mocking sky --
Homesick for steadfast Honey --
Ah, the Bee flies not
That brews that rare variety!...Read more of this...

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